Black coaches, like Charlie Strong, are failing making it so difficult for others

Charlie Strong digs his own grave with loss to lowly Jayhawks.

Loss to Jayhawks very last straw.

Mass Appeal Commentary

LAWRENCE — There’s only a handful of African-American head coaches in NCAA Division I big revenue sports [football and basketball] which leads us to the ill-fated philosophies of Good Times’ James Evans who once told his wife Florida blacks are the “last hired and first fired.” Before we get started, let’s give James a gold star for disseminating an unemployment theory that certainly rings loudin college athletics. Yes, it’s true some blacks are indeed the last hired and first fired. On Saturday, we were reminded why.

Too many Ebony skippers, like Texas Longhorns head football coach Charlie Strong , are failing in their respective professions — making it more difficult for others. Sure, every now and then the sun will shine on a black coach’s ass and he or she will savor a taste of serendipity [à la Kevin Ollie who led his alma mater — the UCONN Huskies — to an NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship in 2014].

But, for the most part, it’s been doom and gloom for HNICs [Head Negroes In Charge]. Remember the time Turner Gill’s Kansas Jayhawks allowed 600 yards rushing and almost 800 yards of total offense in a 66-24 defeat to Georgia Tech? Well, what transpired Saturday afternoon in Lawrence is worse.

In Saturday’s chilly matinee, with 20 fans in the stands at KU’s desolate Memorial Stadium, the once mighty Longhorns suffered a comical 24-21 overtime loss to the lowly Jayhawks who, in turn, celebrated the obituary of a 19-game Big 12 losing streak.

To put things in perspective, it was Texas’ first loss to KU since 1938.

The Jayhawks entered the contest with one win this season.

One.

And that was over hapless FCS outfit Rhode Island.

The debacle was also KU’s first win over an FBS opponent in almost 3 years. “We just had our opportunities there,”Strong said after the humiliating defeat. “Not much needed to be said.” Given their lavish resources and hunky dory tradition, it’s just flat out indefensible for the Longhorns to fall to KU.

Look, word on the street claims Strong is a player’s coach who’s highly respected inside the Longhorns’ locker room. If that’s true, his signees certainly let him down on Saturday. Just the fact Strong lost to Kansas warrants an expedited dismissal.

29 comments

Texas is one of those schools you can’t have losing records. You really can’t have less then 9-10 win seasons and expect to survive as coach there very long. He had 3 years. He was probably gone already after the season but after losing to Kansas for the first time since before ww2 he may very well not be coach after this weekend. Congratulations to Kansas though. Being 1-9 not exactly unusual for them but they gave their fans quite a thrill today.

The Cubs, Trump beating the corrupt rigged system, George Soros, corrupt liberal media and all, and now this. It’s beginning to look like a year for the History books, that is, when Trump changes education, so that they actually start teaching History again, instead of sucking up to the most miniscule minority of the population that the leftists can find, while searching under every rock.

Charlie, I’m sorry, but Texas was a bad pick to start with. I don’t think they would accept you even if you were winning. Texas much different place than Louisville. At least, you’ll come out of there much richer. Congrats, there’ll be other schools needing a good coach.

Charlie Strong dug himself in too big of a hole his first 2 years. This year was just a result of that. He needs more time, but his decision making during games just makes that too difficult for the boosters.﻿

Didn’t have a qb until this year and his D took a step back. Blame that on recruiting which sadly he’s apart of. Still felt the personel wasn’t there for him to be successful. Part on him and part on the University.﻿

I think he had, and still has, a lot of potential, but from one game to the next, his team has shown confusion, lack of preparation, multiple procedural penalties, guys not knowing their defensive assignments/holding their hands in the air blaming each other for blown coverages, and poor clock and time out management. That’s not on the players, that’s on the coaches who aren’t preparing the players.

Charlie Strong cleaned house and built a foundation that Tom Herman can add to. Coach Strong could have just wanted wins, forget the discipline and principles he wanted to establish, and just win at all costs like Art Briles with Baylor. Better to rebuild 3 years with a promising 4th year, than to rise and burn like Baylor did knowing NCAA will deservedly make it harder for Baylor to compete. That loss to the Jayhawks will be hard to forget, even 50 yrs from now. Hoping CS can rebound in 2018 elsewhere.﻿